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Pros
Pro Universal
Being a mature format, its compatibility is universal and its use is widespread.
Cons
Con Bitrate cap
According to its ISO standards, MP3 is not to be encoded at over 320kbps bitrate.
Con Lossy
Loses (a lot of) audio data to compression.
Con Inefficient compression
Its compression algorithms lacks behind AAC in terms of efficiency and loses more audio data at the same bitrate.
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